Faculty/Author Profile

Hilda M. Gonzalez

Health Net, Inc.

Executive Counsel

Woodland Hills, CA, USA

Hilda M. Gonzalez: Hilda is Executive Counsel for Health Net, Inc. (“Health Net”) in Health Net’s corporate headquarters located in Woodland Hills, California. She is Health Net’s in-house employment counsel managing all employment related matters both at the federal and state levels. She has extensive experience managing and counseling on a variety of employment-related matters, including wrongful discharge, disability, race, age, national origin, and gender discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims, wage-and-hour issues, affirmative action, and class actions. She advises on matters involving the EEOC, the Department of Labor (federal and state) and local state agencies. She provides guidance on compliance audits. In addition, Hilda provides day to day counseling on a myriad of employee relations issues such as hiring practices, compensation plans, reductions-in-force, internal investigations, and leave administration. She also provides guidance to human resources and management regarding work place policies and procedures. In addition, Hilda has extensive experience handling and managing health care related matters both in litigation and arbitration involving single plaintiff matters as well as putative class actions. Hilda graduated from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, and received her J.D. from Loyola Law School.